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MAIL ing low-water planting Tragically lacking sense. beds around the edges. Ignorance and absolutism in I noticed with apprecia—Diane Jones, one ugly package. A discustion that you printed seven Boise sion of mortuary customs as tips for outdoor water conthey relate to spontaneous TWO ON TED servation (BW, Top Seven, pregnancy loss in the first Regarding Ted Rall’s June trimester in order for Herr June 3, 2009). 3 typically histrionic, hyper- Rall. He’s been a knuckleHowever, those rather bolic and myopic column anemic tips assume that head before and will again. (BW, Opinion, “Mr. Obama: I predict. everybody will retain their Resign Now”): was Presinon-natural, water-sucking —Gary Addington, dent [Barack] Obama being green lawns. It would be Boise “useless” when he recently wonderful if you would GOOD RIDDENS picked New York doctor print the following “let’s Dennis Mansfield and get real” tips for conserving Thomas Frieden to head up the CDC (a man who’s been Melissa B. Swindell aren’t water. These could make a the only ones pining away instrumental in New York real difference. over the upcoming (and City for pushing through The really serious list of outdoor water conserva- smoking bans in restaurants welcome) departure of Bryan Fischer. Idaho’s and launching a highly tion tips: successful campaign against free-thought community is multidrug-resistant tubercu- also in despair over Mullah 1. Remove your lawn losis that lowered such cases Fischer’s pending move to entirely. Mississippi. Fischer has by over 80 percent there)? 2. Replace your lawn with been one of the best reMaybe Rall can take just a low-water ornamental cruitment tools for Idaho’s second out from inside that landscaping. lofty morality tower he lives free thinkers. 3. Use rock or organic Fischer’s attempts to mulch to help retain soil in to stop worrying about all “make Idaho the friendlithose poor, unfairly treated moisture. est place in the world to “innocent” souls there at 4. Replace your sprinkler raise family” by opposGuantanamo Bay—a numsystem with a watering equal rights for gays, conserving drip irrigation ber of whom, by the way, after they were released there by denying reproducsystem. (because of PC-driven politi- tive rights to women, 5. Plant some no-water cal pressure), were involved by attacking science, by natives like sagebrush rewriting history and by in high-profile bombings in and rabbit brush where generally being in the local Iraq and elsewhere shortly appropriate. forefront of the funda6. Design in some no-water thereafter—and acknowlmentalist movement to edge that at least some of pathways and/or patios return the Western world what Obama has done is of rock, gravel or bark to the 13th century helped indeed for the greater good mulch. discredit the family values ... even, yes, Rall’s. 7. If you can’t remove the —John Pluntze, movement and made it entire lawn, begin removKetchum appear to be synonymous ing small parts and creat-
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